Notes for season 1 episode 20, “Matsya Nyaya”
01:14 Can’t quite tell what phone Reese swaps the SIM in for the 2010 flashback scene, but I think it might be a BlackBerry Tour, which matches the timeframe.
06:49 Finch sets up an ANPR system on the back of the truck, and it’s later implied the tech was stolen from police. Google released the machine learning library TensorFlow in 2015, so by 2023 you can find numerous projects on GitHub that’ll do live-video APNR using it.
09:36 “Are you familiar with Stuxnet?”
1620 Warners have left reganmedicalsupply.com unregistered
24:21 “I’m texting him an alluring photo from Ashley’s archive.” Eurgh. When Reese and Finch hack your devices and trawl through your nudes, it’s for the greater good. “When he opens the file a spyware trojan embedded in the file will send his GPS coordinates.” It’s 2012, sure, why not.
25:50 Flashback Reese comes across a building of recently killed software engineers in some kind of “Three Days of the Condor” scenario. Reese speculates at the possibility it was a “BMR” (or maybe “EMR”) recon team, but it’s not clear who that is.
27:00 They find the Ordos laptop, and it’s a Panasonic ToughBook CF-29 which matches the 2010 timeline. ToughBooks get used in the field in construction and the military, so you’ll also see them pop up in action movies. I covet them – I’ll sometimes open my sleek M2 MacBook and browse eBay for a decade old lump of manly tech in the knowledge that if I ever bought it, it would never be used for “computing”. It makes the perfect MacGuffin for Person of Interest.
28:52 Using the name of the woman you’re having an affair with, as your standard password, seems like bad opsec in multiple different ways.
29:33 “Thing about angles, Fusco, add ’em up and it always comes out the same.” What even is this expression, some lesser known Euclidian street axiom?
31:27 More burner phone opsec tips from Finch. Don’t keep buying the same brand and using the same passwords.
42:23 CharterBankOfGrandCayman.com has been registered, but not by Warners apparently.